The Globe and Mail doesn't like the idea of Snus being sold in Edmonton starting this month. Okay, look, I've had snus before. Some people go nuts for the stuff. Others don't. If smokers can be convinced to give up cigarettes for some nicotine flavoured happy pills, doesn't that mean less annoying smokers on the streets? As soon as the anti-smoking nutsos get it through their heads that some morons like poisoning themselves as a "stress reliever", and that companies like Phillip Morris like the idea of making money, and that these two groups have a good relationship with each other, its time to get off the high horse. While snus may be more harmful to you than carrots, its less so than cigarettes, and has far less impact on passerbys. If Les Hagan and his cronies really want something to fight about, why not try this story?

Colby Cosh weighs in on MMP, which apparently has something to do with why Ontarians are idiots.

The first residential school "victim" got her paycheque today. The story reports she wore full native garb and her profession is...teacher. That's right, let's remember all over again how horrible these residential schools were: they took the primitive uneducated unproductive Phil Fontaine lot, and converted them into educated men and women able to make their mark on society. I guess we're the assholes...

The math on this just doesn't work out: 100,000 bottles and cans of beer stolen. So how was the value of a "retail value of $200,000"? Since when was Moosehead and/or Labatt beer only retailing for $2/bottle? Also:

Police believe the suspect is responsible for stealing 1,100 cases of beer and was selling the ill-gotten ale to bars and after-hours clubs.

1,100 cases of beer is 12x1100=13,200 bottles. Or, to be generous, 24x1100=26,400 cans. So where do the 100,000 come from?